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The Bourgeois
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Author : Franco Moretti
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2013-06-04
The Bourgeois written by Franco Moretti and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-04 with Social Science categories.
"The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. 'I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals,' wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today? Bourgeois 'opinions and ideals'-what are they?" Thus begins Franco Moretti's study of the bourgeois in modern European literature-a major new analysis of the once-dominant culture and its literary decline and fall. Moretti's gallery of individual portraits is entwined with the analysis of specific keywords-"useful" and "earnest," "efficiency," "influence," "comfort," "roba"-and of the formal mutations of the medium of prose. From the "working master" of the opening chapter, through the seriousness of nineteenth-century novels, the conservative hegemony of Victorian Britain, the "national malformations" of the Southern and Eastern periphery, and the radical self-critique of Ibsen's twelve-play cycle, the book charts the vicissitudes of bourgeois culture, exploring the causes for its historical weakness, and for its current irrelevance.
The Myth Of The French Bourgeoisie
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Author : Sarah Maza
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
The Myth Of The French Bourgeoisie written by Sarah Maza and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with History categories.
Who, exactly, were the French bourgeoisie? Unlike the Anglo-Americans, who widely embraced middle-class ideals and values, the French--even the most affluent and conservative--have always rejected and maligned bourgeois values and identity. In this new approach to the old question of the bourgeoisie, Sarah Maza focuses on the crucial period before, during, and after the French Revolution, and offers a provocative answer: the French bourgeoisie has never existed. Despite the large numbers of respectable middling town-dwellers, no group identified themselves as bourgeois. Drawing on political and economic theory and history, personal and polemical writings, and works of fiction, Maza argues that the bourgeoisie was never the social norm. In fact, it functioned as a critical counter-norm, an imagined and threatening embodiment of materialism, self-interest, commercialism, and mass culture, which defined all that the French rejected. A challenge to conventional wisdom about modern French history, this book poses broader questions about the role of anti-bourgeois sentiment in French culture, by suggesting parallels between the figures of the bourgeois, the Jew, and the American in the French social imaginary. It is a brilliant and timely foray into our beliefs and fantasies about the social world and our definition of a social class.
Modernity And Bourgeois Life
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Author : Jerrold Seigel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-12
Modernity And Bourgeois Life written by Jerrold Seigel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-12 with History categories.
What does it mean to be modern? In the nineteenth century a consensus emerged that Western Europe was giving birth to a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values played a key role. Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity.
Gustavus Flaubertus Bourgeoisophobus
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Author : Alan William Raitt
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Release Date : 2005
Gustavus Flaubertus Bourgeoisophobus written by Alan William Raitt and has been published by Peter Lang Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Middle class in literature categories.
It is well known that Flaubert harboured an obsessive hatred of the bourgeois and his mentality which erupts constantly and explosively in his correspondence, informs large parts of the works set in his own time, Madame Bovary, L'Education sentimentale, Un Coeur simple and Bouvard et Pecuchet and even overflows into Salammbo and his theatrical experiments. Since most of his thought and writing is so visibly and vitally affected by this obsession, it seems valuable to investigate its origins, its development and its significance for his art. That is the aim of this study which begins with a look at representations of the bourgeois in French literature before Flaubert and goes on to examine in detail what proves to be a more complex phenomenon than might at first sight appear.
Bourgeois Society In 19th Century Europe
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Author : Allan Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Release Date : 1993-01-06
Bourgeois Society In 19th Century Europe written by Allan Mitchell and has been published by Berg Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-06 with History categories.
Ever since the late 18th century, European society has been undergoing a transformation in which the most dynamic element has been the middle class. This provocative book contains the first comprehensive study of 18th and early 19th century bourgeois society by American, European and Israeli scholars in history, anthropology, literature, sociology and law. They examine the specific characteristics of the middle class social types, the extent to which their values and interests altered the texture of 19th century European society and national differences that emerged in their development.
The Global Bourgeoisie
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Author : Christof Dejung
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-26
The Global Bourgeoisie written by Christof Dejung and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with History categories.
The first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the emergence of the middle class and bourgeois culture was by no means exclusive to Europe. The Global Bourgeoisie explores the rise of the middle classes around the world during the age of empire. Bringing together eminent scholars, this landmark essay collection compares middle-class formation in various regions, highlighting differences and similarities, and assesses the extent to which bourgeois growth was tied to the increasing exchange of ideas and goods. The contributors indicate that the middle class was from its very beginning, even in Europe, the result of international connections and entanglements. Essays are grouped into six thematic sections: the political history of middle-class formation, the impact of imperial rule on the colonial middle class, the role of capitalism, the influence of religion, the obstacles to the middle class beyond the Western and colonial world, and, lastly, reflections on the creation of bourgeois cultures and global social history. Placing the establishment of middle-class society into historical context, this book shows how the triumph or destabilization of bourgeois values can shape the liberal world order. The Global Bourgeoisie irrevocably changes the understanding of how an important social class came to be.
The Bourgeois Virtues
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Author : Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-03-15
The Bourgeois Virtues written by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-15 with Business & Economics categories.
For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken’s “booboisie” and David Brooks’s “bobos”—all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty, world wars, and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskey’s The Bourgeois Virtues, a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good for us. McCloskey’s sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities—from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich—overturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalism’s critics with her erudition and sheer scope of knowledge. Applying a new tradition of “virtue ethics” to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations. High Noon, Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and of course economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a life’s work. The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism—and a surprising page-turner.
How Revolutionary Were The Bourgeois Revolutions
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Author : Neil Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2012
How Revolutionary Were The Bourgeois Revolutions written by Neil Davidson and has been published by Haymarket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
A historical defense of the concept of bourgeois revolution, from the sixteenth century to the twentieth.
Class Struggle In The First French Republic
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Author : Daniel Guérin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Class Struggle In The First French Republic written by Daniel Guérin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with France categories.
Bourgeois Utopias
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Author : Robert Fishman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987-11-03
Bourgeois Utopias written by Robert Fishman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-11-03 with Social Science categories.
A noted urban historian traces the story of the suburb from its origins in nineteenth-century London to its twentieth-century demise in decentralized cities like Los Angeles.